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Pump Up the Volume (1990)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 6/03, 10/05

10/05: If you want to laugh hard, then I present you Pump Up the Volume.

This one tries too much, and the message doesn't work. The content is juvenile and superficial to be taken seriously. Equally bad is the obscene amount of close-ups throughout.

The proposed solutions by Hard Harry for the problems facing high school adolescents are nothing new. In the movie, it seems to affect over 90% of them when in reality it's closer to a third or less. The acting isn't great, but Christian Slater pulls through.

All in all, Pump Up the Volume is dated.

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